Google Analytics Real Time Stats Preview

Late last week I received an invitation to try out Google Analytics’ new Real Time Stats feature, which was announced a couple of weeks ago. I’m not sure when it will be available to everyone, so thought I’d give a quick preview of it.

While it is very simple I can see this being very useful also—particularly when monitoring traffic events to which you might want to be able to react quickly.

We’ve had Real Time for a couple of weeks after getting an invite from Google – it is incredible. Being able to respond quickly to a surge in traffic, and tailor the response to the source of the traffic in real time, is pretty amazing.

GA RealTime is awesome, i have been using this from past few weeks, and find it really useful to analyze my social media marketing outcome and also get to know far more details on how a particular post of mine is performing immediately after publishing the same.

I’ve been putting off using the new interface because I found the design a little clunky that made it harder to get around in my analytics. But I’ve just reactivated it and noticed they’ve changed a few things and while it’s still not great usability-wise it’s not bad.

Seems like a great tool that will provide plenty of usefulness to Bloggers. Having real time stats makes a huge difference. Most stat counters, Analytic tools seem to have a variety of time frames upon which they return data.

The great shock I had around the time they announced this tool, was regarding the price tag for Google Analytics Premium at a whopping $ 150’000 USD per year. For very large sites, and online/ offline businesses, I am sure they would be able to shell out that sort of coin. Though, for most Blogs(Sites) it would be a little out of their budget range.